1.12.2009

"I don't give a damn. They can sue me. I will not have any of the gays in leadership roles in my hotel."- Tarun Surti, an Indian American, to David Hill, recently fired from the Artee Hotel in Tennessee for being gay.

I think this is a good opportunity to acknowledge the homophobia in the South Asian community and the false view that homosexuality is a Western notion and only occurs in the South Asian youth when we've been exposed/seduced to American culture..